Literary notes about examples (AI summary)
In literature the term "examples" is employed both as a didactic tool and as a means of substantiating arguments or illustrating abstract points. Writers use it to pinpoint specific instances—sometimes numbered succinctly as in [1] or [2]—which serve to validate broader discussions, whether in heraldic treatises [3] or philosophical texts [4]. At other times, "examples" provide concrete cases that guide the reader’s understanding, offering detailed analogies in public speaking [5] or demonstrating legal principles as in [6] and [7]. The term spans a spectrum of functions, from cataloguing historical evidence [8] to elucidating grammatical structures [9], thereby reinforcing the author's credibility and enhancing clarity throughout diverse literary genres.
- Examples: No. 15.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Examples: No. 20.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Single supporters were very much in favour in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the examples are numerous.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - Indeed, the grand and only use of examples, is to sharpen the judgement.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - For exercise, ( a ) give several original examples of compound images, and ( b ) construct brief descriptions of the scenes imagined.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - Some examples of the process of specification will be useful.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - " The rule of the road and the sailing rules adopted by Congress from England are modern examples of such statutes.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Athens, the polite and learned Athens, will supply us with sufficient examples.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - But the following examples ( § 25 ) show that the same word may have more than one kind of grammatical office (or function).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
